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So, in Part 1 I did a bit of a thought-experiment around the idea of Green IT out­side of the con­text of the Cli­mate Change Debate.

Hav­ing said that what­ever one’s views on cli­mate change*, being green is still good thing, what can we do in prac­tice to reduce waste and power consumption?

It’s not easy being green

Print double-sided, use recy­cled paper and use secure-printing. Since switch­ing to double-sided print­ing by default, we’ve saved roughly 25% on our paper costs. On one printer alone, we have avoided print­ing 38,000 sheets of A4 paper since it’s instal­la­tion.

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This week I’m off to the Green IT Expo at the QEII con­fer­ence cen­tre in Lon­don and have been giv­ing some thought to what I hope to get out of it. On one level, I think we’re doing a pretty good job here at Ban­ner — we’ve addressed many of the obvi­ous issues (waste, recy­cling, power con­sump­tion etc), but there is always room to take things a step fur­ther and make improvements.

This got me think­ing about the sub­ject of ‘green IT’ and more broadly, ‘green busi­ness’ and the back­drop against which we make deci­sions and for­mu­late pol­icy.

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